House Of The Dragon Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Trailer 2025 Breakdown - Game Of Thrones
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00:00Welcome back everyone, it's Charlie.
00:12This will be my Game of Thrones, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms trailer video.
00:15HBO just released the finale for House of the Dragons season 2, naturally they want
00:20to promote everything big that's coming next year.
00:22So they're like, here we have this new Game of Thrones series, please don't unsubscribe
00:25from our channel.
00:27We've got a whole bunch of Game of Thrones stuff happening later in the timeline.
00:30Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will be the next big spinoff prequel series.
00:33It'll run at the same time that they're doing new seasons of House of the Dragon, but it
00:37takes place later in the timeline.
00:39Like I said, we just saw the Bloodraven, for instance, aka Brynden Rivers, the Three-Eyed
00:43Raven from the original Game of Thrones series, during those House of the Dragon flashes forward.
00:48He's actually very active in the realm during the events of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
00:52It takes place long before he ever became the Three-Eyed Raven.
00:55So there's a pretty good chance that we'll see him on the show at some point.
01:00Now he's not a huge character during season 1, but he gets heavily involved in the plot
01:04in the realm, like things that are going on in the realm just in general around that part
01:07of the timeline.
01:08So it feels like a pretty easy slam dunk, and I think that's one of the reasons why
01:12they included his cameo scene during House of the Dragon during the recent finale.
01:16So while we're breaking down all the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms footage, I'll explain
01:20how the Bloodraven, Brynden Rivers fits into what's happening right now, and all the other
01:25spinoffs and prequels that HBO is working on right now.
01:28Aegon's Conquest is probably the really, really big one.
01:31If you're brand new to the channel, be sure to subscribe to get all the episodes.
01:35We will be getting episodes for Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in 2025.
01:38Like they say that very prominently throughout this channel, like, remember, it's coming
01:41next year, please don't unsubscribe from HBO.
01:45Most of you probably guessed what their grand plan is here.
01:47It's meant to fill the gap between House of the Dragon season 2 and season 3 episodes,
01:51because season 3 won't premiere until 2026.
01:54I just did a brand new House of the Dragon season 3 video, so I'll link it at the end
01:58of this too.
01:59But we are basically at the point where we're getting Game of Thrones episodes every single
02:03year again.
02:04It's just from a couple different series with them bouncing back and forth, because now
02:08it takes them so long to make new shows.
02:11I just mentioned Aegon's Conquest prequel series that they're working on.
02:14Eventually that's probably going to replace House of the Dragon after the House of the
02:17Dragon final season.
02:18But just starting at the beginning of the footage, it starts with Ser Duncan the Tall
02:22taking his helmet off, arriving on horseback in his armor.
02:25Notice this looks kind of like the tourney in Ashford Meadow, which is where the bulk
02:29of the plot in season 1 takes place.
02:31The look on his face is extremely serious, but it looks like he's only recently arrived
02:35at the tournament.
02:36This is essentially how the plot of season 1 picks up.
02:39It's based on the Tales of Duncan Egg novellas that George R. R. Martin wrote.
02:42The collected works are called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
02:46They just decided to use that as the title for the actual show, because they're adapting
02:49all the books in that series.
02:52Dunk is Ser Duncan the Tall, Egg is Aegon Targaryen, this boy here who you see, it looks
02:58like it's after he becomes Duncan's squire and they're just eating on the road.
03:02If you're not familiar with a lot of the Targaryen family line later in the timeline, Egg eventually
03:07becomes Aegon V, the future King of Westeros.
03:11He's also meant to be the younger brother of Maester Aemon.
03:14But at the moment when this series is taking place, Egg is very, very low in the line of
03:19succession.
03:20There's a lot of things that have to happen before he actually becomes king.
03:23All the story that they're adapting for Knight of the Seven Kingdoms really just covers his
03:27younger years as Ser Duncan the Tall's squire, like when he's very, very young.
03:32Season 1 is meant to adapt the first novella, which is called The Hedge Knight.
03:36It's a reference to Ser Duncan the Tall.
03:38A hedge knight in the world of Game of Thrones is a wandering knight with no master who just
03:42travels around the different realms looking for work with one of the different great lords.
03:47Typically in A Song of Ice and Fire, most knights are sworn to one of the great lords
03:51of the realm, like hedge knights are just ones that roam around looking for work.
03:55Dunk is unique in Game of Thrones in that he was born a commoner in Flea Bottom.
03:59The books haven't really revealed who his father is.
04:01There's all kinds of theories that he could be a highborn person, but they're never really sure.
04:05But the series is meant to take place right after the events of the first Blackfyre Rebellion.
04:10And what they're doing is they're giving you more of the perspective of the smallfolk
04:14through Ser Duncan the Tall's character.
04:17House of the Dragon right now is mostly taking the perspective of the highborn people really
04:21close to the line of succession in the Iron Throne, like the upper levels of the Targaryen family.
04:26We're in the middle of the Dance of the Dragons, like the middle of this civil war within the family.
04:30The Blackfyre Rebellion is a similar type of event with a battle for the succession within the family.
04:35The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms really shows you the recovery of the realm after a major
04:40civil war like that in a way that we're not going to see during Dance of the Dragons,
04:45during the House of the Dragon TV show.
04:47So about 65 years after the current events on House of the Dragon, you get the Blackfyre Rebellion.
04:53That ends Ser Arlen of Penytree's former squire dies around that time, and he replaces him
04:59with Duncan from Flea Bottom.
05:01During his early years as Ser Arlen's squire, they served the High Gardens, the Florence,
05:05they had other adventures all over the realm.
05:07Duncan aspired to become a knight one day, Ser Arlen was eventually going to knight him,
05:12but on their way to the tourney of Ashford Meadow, Ser Arlen, who you see here, I think
05:16this is meant to be Ser Arlen practicing with his sword here.
05:19He winds up passing away of old age, and if you've seen Heath Ledger's Knight's Tale movie,
05:23this is actually a good comparison.
05:25Mark Addy, for instance, who played Robert Baratheon on Game of Thrones, also starred in that movie, big coincidence.
05:31Something similar winds up happening in that movie, where the knight that he's sworn to
05:35winds up dying, and he takes his place wearing his armor to the tournament.
05:40Now the events of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms are different in the fact that Ser Arlen of
05:44Penytree did knight Ser Duncan the Tall before he died.
05:48But then Dunk takes Ser Arlen's armor, which he's wearing in this scene here, like he shows
05:52up at the tournament wearing Ser Arlen's former armor, and tries to enter and compete like
05:57any other knight.
05:58But the big problem that he runs into is that in order to fight in tournaments like this,
06:02you have to be a knight, and Dunk has no proof that Ser Arlen actually knighted him, no formal
06:07letters declaring him, no legal standing that actually proves that he's a knight.
06:11This person who's asking his name at the tournament here as he's trying to enter is probably Plummer
06:15the Steward from the books, who tells him that he can't prove himself, he can't compete.
06:19On the way to this tournament, at a random inn, he winds up meeting Young Egg at the
06:24stables who impresses him, and he agrees to take him on as his own squire, but the
06:28boy Egg lies about his identity and doesn't tell Dunk that he's really the Royal Prince
06:34Aegon Targaryen.
06:36At this tournament, Dunk is eventually able to compete after Egg's uncle Baelor Targaryen
06:41vouches for him.
06:42Now Baelor and Egg's father Maegar Targaryen are the sons of the current reigning king
06:46Daeron II.
06:48Baelor was his oldest son, the Crown Prince, and his current Hand at the time.
06:53So he was a very powerful person, and he was a very good person, so he was happy to
06:56help Dunk.
06:57Like, I'll vouch for you, you can join the tournament, don't worry about it.
07:00This next trailer scene is actually from much later during the season, I think.
07:04This might be Dunk fighting Aeryon Brightflame during the Trial by Seven.
07:08Trial by Seven is kind of like Trial by Combat, but both sides get seven members to fight
07:12with him, so it's way more epic.
07:14It's meant to be one of the defining moments early in Dunk's life as a knight.
07:18Aeryon Brightflame is a major antagonist of season one.
07:21He's one of Egg's older brothers.
07:23He had three older brothers, like I said, other big connection to the original Game
07:27of Thrones show between this.
07:29Egg's next oldest brother was Maester Aemon.
07:32Aemon actually referenced Egg on his deathbed during that original series.
07:36Egg, mother's looking for you.
07:40Egg, I dreamed that I was old.
07:48That was him remembering them playing as children.
07:51Maester Aemon told some of his backstory to Jon Snow during season one in the circumstances
07:55of how he came to the Night's Watch in the first place and took the black.
07:58It's fairly tragic, as you would expect.
08:00It's the world of Game of Thrones, of course it's going to be a tragic backstory.
08:04Essentially there was a series of unfortunate events in the line of succession, as tend
08:08to happen with the Iron Throne, the Targaryens, at pretty much any point in history.
08:12Maester Aemon eventually became the next in line to become king and sit the Iron Throne,
08:17but he didn't want a repeat of the events of the Blackfyre Rebellion with another battle
08:22in the family over the succession, because they literally just gone through that just
08:26a couple years earlier.
08:27So he abdicated his position, taking the black, and thus the Iron Throne passed to Egg.
08:33But that didn't happen till much, much later in his life.
08:36None of that stuff happens during what they cover on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
08:40That'll just be Egg during his childhood years squiring for Ser Duncan the Tall and the adventures
08:45that they have across Westeros.
08:47But the idea with season one is that pretty much the entire season just takes place around
08:51this one tourney of Ashford Meadow and tells the story of how Dunk became a knight, then
08:56met Egg, and their relationship as friends started, and how Dunk became his official
09:00protector when he learned his true identity, like, wait a minute, you're one of the princes,
09:04in their continuing adventures during this part of their lives.
09:08The couple other really big characters that we see in season one, Maekar, Egg's father,
09:13he's still a prince when this is all happening, because Daeron II, his father, is still king,
09:17and Maekar is behind an older brother, Aerys I, in the line of succession.
09:22So when season one picks up, there are many people within the line of succession.
09:26That's why Egg is so far down and nobody expects him to ever be king.
09:31Speaking of Aerys, most people remember Aerys II, that was the Mad King though, much later
09:35in the timeline.
09:36Maekar's older brother, Aerys I, became the next king after Daeron II died, but because
09:42he had no heirs, the throne passed to Maekar, and that's how Egg came much closer to the
09:46Iron Throne.
09:48Once you get within the stone's throw of the Iron Throne, you get that close in the line
09:51of succession, your life becomes a really, really big deal.
09:54But all this is a good example of how you have all these different people in the line
09:57of succession, but someone way lower in the line winds up jumping up to the top because
10:03of a series of unfortunate events with a lot of the people you're related to that are much
10:06closer to the Iron Throne.
10:08Tanzel is probably one of the other biggest characters they're introducing.
10:11Her nickname is Tanzel Too Tall.
10:14As you probably imagine, she's extremely tall, like Ser Duncan the Tall.
10:18She winds up becoming Dunk's love interest.
10:20She's rumored to eventually become his wife, but a lot of the story doesn't really cover
10:23that part of their lifetime.
10:25But because Ser Duncan the Tall is meant to be the ancestor of Brienne of Tarth, I think
10:29the idea is that Tanzel got married to him, they had children, and eventually Brienne
10:33of Tarth is born much later in their line, and that's why Brienne is so tall.
10:38Because both of her great-great-grandparents are extremely tall.
10:42During the events of Season 1, Tanzel is still a puppeteer from Dorne who just happens
10:45to be working at this tourney of Ashford Meadow when Dunk shows up to compete.
10:50Dunk winds up defending her against Arion Brightflame, Egg's older brother, and because
10:54it's a really serious crime to strike a prince, he's forced to fight in the Trial by Seven
10:58to defend his life.
11:00Which we see him doing at the end of this trailer here, fighting against Arion Brightflame.
11:04Season 1 will only be six episodes, so my assumption is the events of that Trial by
11:09Seven will be like the bulk of the last two episodes.
11:12Season 2 will adapt the second book called The Sworn Sword.
11:15Season 3 will adapt Book 3, The Mystery Knight.
11:17George R. R. Martin did say that he plans to write more Duncan Egg stories for their
11:21early lives.
11:22I don't know if he'll be done doing that before they're ready for like Season 4 of
11:25Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
11:27We actually do know what happens to Duncan Egg much later in their lives after Egg becomes
11:31king and makes Ser Duncan the Tall Lord Commander of his Kingsguard.
11:35Ser Duncan the Tall.
11:39Four pages for Ser Duncan.
11:41He must have been quite a man.
11:43So they say.
11:44Egg is also meant to be Aegon V who was involved in the tragedy of Summerhall, which is like
11:48a huge event in the history of the Targaryens, a very bad event in their history.
11:53Aegon V tries to hatch himself a whole bunch of new dragon eggs because during this part
11:57of the timeline there are basically no dragons around.
12:01That whole event wound up happening because most of the dragons had died out and he tried
12:04to hatch a bunch of brand new dragon eggs with a special ceremony involving blood magic.
12:09So that's why they call it the tragedy of Summerhall because it led to some really,
12:13really bad consequences.
12:14Note to self, if you ever become King of Westeros, do not mess around with blood magic lightly.
12:19If they do wind up flashing forward at the end of the series, they might just show a
12:22quick flash forward to show Egg becoming Aegon V and getting the crown, sitting on the Iron
12:27Throne.
12:28But I don't expect the show to actually get into any Summerhall stuff just because it's
12:31mostly covering their younger years.
12:33If they end with a flash forward though, it'll probably just be to show him being crowned
12:37King and then making Ser Duncan the Tall Lord Commander.
12:41But because they've been doing all these trippy Daemon Weirwood visions, Helaena dragon dreams
12:46flash forward on the House of Dragon, they could do something similar on Knight of the
12:50Seven Kingdoms where they foreshadow the eventual tragedy at Summerhall.
12:54They really want to connect all these different spin-offs and prequels using the prophecy
12:58of the Prince Who Was Promised.
12:59So it just feels like maybe we'll have some very, very light references to that during
13:04Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
13:05But if it's only six episodes, just don't expect a ton of Weirwood trippy visions happening
13:09every single episode.
13:11But because Brynden Rivers, the Three-Eyed Raven, is still very active during this period,
13:15maybe he'll start seeing some visions that will inspire him to eventually take some events
13:20that will lead to him taking the Black.
13:22But he doesn't do that till much later in the timeline.
13:25Fun fact 2, Egg, once he becomes King, Aegon V, is the person who forces Brynden Rivers,
13:31the Blood Raven, Three-Eyed Raven, to take the Black and go north to the Wall.
13:35But what winds up happening to the Blood Raven is that he goes to the Wall with Maester Aemon,
13:39like he accompanied him to the Wall at the same time.
13:42Brynden Rivers served as Lord Commander for a while eventually, then just one day he disappeared
13:47north of the Wall to become the Three-Eyed Raven.
13:50And that's the last that the Night's Watch heard from him.
13:53But obviously we know that he was communicating with Bran, he was communicating with Daemon
13:57because he was sending these visions backward in the timeline.
14:00He was just busy under his weirwood tree dealing with the Night King and all these different
14:04Targaryens across the timeline.
14:06There are a couple other live-action and animated spinoffs that they're working on right now too.
14:09I already talked about Aegon's Conquest, that's like the next one that will happen right after
14:13House of the Dragon is probably done in a couple years.
14:16There are two other live-action shows that we know about.
14:18There's a 10,000 Ships about Nymeria coming to Dorne.
14:22There's an untitled one, we have no idea what that's about.
14:24It could be about Robert's Rebellion, it could be about the Blackfyre Rebellions.
14:27There are two untitled animated series, we don't know what they're going to be.
14:31There's an animated Golden Empire of E.T. which is meant to take place before the events
14:37of the Rise of Ancient Valyria, like way earlier in the timeline.
14:41They had their own version of the Long Night 2 in the lore.
14:44We can talk about that if that actually winds up being turned into a show.
14:47Then there's a prequel series about the young life of Corlys Velaryon called the Nine Voyages
14:51of the Sea Snake, which was live-action and has now apparently been shifted to animation.
14:56That's probably why we've been seeing so much Corlys during House of the Dragon, because
15:00they want to set him up for his prequel series.
15:02But it'd be a different actor, like it'd be a much younger version of the character.
15:05I am sure in the next couple years we'll hear about a billion other spinoffs and prequels.
15:10So whatever they wind up announcing about the upcoming ones, like this Aegon's Conquest
15:13prequel series, whoever they end up casting for that, of course I will do videos for that
15:17too, while I'm doing House of the Dragon Season 3, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episodes.
15:21We'll probably get a much bigger trailer for Knight of the Seven Kingdoms at the end
15:24of this year too, early next year.
15:27Maybe episodes in the spring, or at least by this time next year.
15:30If there's any other easter eggs or references that you spotted in the trailer that I didn't
15:33talk about in the video, just write them below in the comments and I'll just do more bonus
15:37videos for Season 3 and this as we get more details.
15:40I've got a couple of the big ones planned right now.
15:43Click here for my House of the Dragon Season 3 video and click here for my full House of
15:47the Dragon Season 2 Episode 8 finale video.
15:50Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one!